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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- 1 2 "Election Intelligence" . Bucks Herald. 2 January 1875. Retrieved 17 September 2014– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Matthews, John (1892). A history of the parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor : in the county of Cornwall. pp. 506.
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